EA and Nintendo decide Wii U won’t get Crysis 3

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When a new console is launched it’s only going to sell as well as the games available for it. So you’d think Nintendo would be grabbing every AAA title they can lay their hands on for the Wii U . But apparently that’s not the case if you talk to Crytek and EA.

Apparently discussions have been ongoing to try and get Crysis 3 ported over to the Wii U, but it’s not going to happen. The reason? One of “business drive,” or a lack there of.

In July last year Crytek producer Mike Reed stated that Crysis 3 on the Wii U was a possibility and that talks were underway with Nintendo. However, publisher EA and Nintendo have jointly decided not to release the game on Nintendo’s machine, and that’s purely a business decision. In other words, either one or both parties don’t think it would sell well enough to warrant the time spent porting it to the machine, not to mention the marketing and distribution costs involved.

A number of CryEngine 3 games are expected to make an appearance on the Wii U, but Crysis 3 won’t now be one of them. The real losers in this decision are gamers who count the Wii U as their only console and who now won’t get to play that game.

A few more decisions like this and Nintendo will be pushing gamers to invest in other hardware so as to play the games they want. It’s no coincidence we see so many games released on both the PS3 and Xbox 360–neither Sony or Microsoft want to lose out on a game and potentially give gamers a reason to pick up a rival machine.

If you own a PC, PS3, or Xbox 360, you can play Crysis 3 next month. Anyone seeing this as a reason to trade in their Wii U and pick up something else, just remember what happens to any downloaded games you purchased.